Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-01-29

The new Episcopal church 1T Albert Lee IL
nearly flushed.
The masons of Lake City are to have q Sc
ries Of sociaJIes.
At Closuet a little 5-year-old boy was killed
on . t~oboggan slide.
During 1856 there we're 2S4 births in Red
Wing and eighty deaths.
John F. Norrish has been appointed surveyor
general by the president.
A hundred mile bicycle race took place at
Fairbault Saturday the 2sds
A lot on Superior street, Duluth, the ethsr
day sold for N10 per foot front.
Farmer Merriam, speaker OF the Legislature,
is negotiating for a farm near st. James.
Thomas Conrio, of Alexandria, an old citl-
gen, died on Sunday from a stroke OF 2araly-
sis.
Dakota county had 52c births In 1886, and
2l2 deaths, while Anoks county had l76
deaths and PSI births.
Tie dry goods house Of John A. Graham,
OF Red Wing, has been closed on attachment
Liabilities, 500 900.
Duluth Is worried over an ordinance that
don't seem to prohibit the habit of leaving
horses unhitched.
s. +. Kencig, station agent at Viola, took
q dose Of aconite by mistake and came near
being poisoned TO death.
Lake City merchants claim their wheat
markets are controlled by a pool and will open
an independent one.
Arthur Cooley, son of the late Judge c. B.
Cooley, of Minneapolis, died at Dodge Center
the other day OF quick consumption.
The first annual convention Of the Second
district Sunday school workers closed an In
t~eresting session at Waseca on the 10Th inst.
A Blue Earth county legislator has his
name on his calling cards prefixed with the
word "Hon." 1t is a harmless, though anus
ing piece of vanity.
The new charter that Is proposed for Wi
nona provides for biennial elections, extends
the terms OF aldermen to four years and
makes the liquor license $500.
James Murphy, charged With having dis
posed of mortgaged property, was captured
by Sheriff Gillian In Nebraska and brought
back 10 Luverne on the 18th inst.
CCNCIAl lOuuE hiN hNiobE ah- W O sitiSb-
ing party from WinCna were turned over an
embaukment near Minnesota City on the eve
ming Of the 18th inst, and severely injured.
l.. A. Fairbanks, OF Mason City, Iowa, has
sued the corporation Of Albert Lea for 81 100
damages. He claims to have been injured
for life by a fall on a defective sidewalk.
1t is proposed TO erect n Young Mems
Christian association building in st. Paul to
cost Sl00, coo. Three pledges of 5000 each
and one Of 81 900 have already been received.
The city of st. Cloud has paid over to the
water power company the last $40, 600 Of the
500, 900 bonus given by the city for the build
ing OF the dam across the Mississippi and the
canal.
A dairyman Of GAINESVILLE commenced to
give his cows water for drink heated to 65
degrees, and the result was an immediate in
crease of thirty quarts of milk per day from
twenty-five o
Clough Bros, of Minneapolis, have pur-
chased pine lands on Rum river, near Anoks,
estimated at 80, 900, 600 feet, for $685. O0 cash
down. They intend to cut about 5000, 900
feet this winter.
The district fair association for S~tearns,
Benton, Sherburne and Mile Laos counties
held It's regular annual meeting at st. Cloud
ciety is about 81, 100.
On the 18th inst. at Kenyon, Henrick Flom
while holding a pair Of horses, was struck In
the stomach by one Of them and knocked
down. He got up and drove home, six miles,
where he grew worse and on the 18th died.
He was sixty-fve years old, and leaves a
family.
A man was arrested at Prairie du Chen,
Wis, last week for being drunk and disorder
ly who had In his possession some sealskin
caps that are thought to have been stolen
from Seely & Buck, of Lake City. He has
been held while the matter is under inyestiga.
ton.
Joint committees Of the Austin city council
and of the board Of trade have completed a
draft for proposed amendments to the city
charter. Under the new charter the mayor
will hold Office two years instead Of one. An
alderman at large will be elected, and the
mayor will have no vote In the council.
Seward Pratt, of Fairmont, was seriously
injured Saturday while assisting in boring a
well. The pulley at the top Of the derrick
gave way and the large iron hook at the end
OF the hosting rope fell, striking him on the
head and fracturing his skull. DR.. Hunt was
summoned, and pronounced the injury prob
ably fatal.
On the 18th inst. at Sank Rapids, In the
Benton county court, Ed Clower was indicted
for the killing Of Scott Justice in an East st.
Cloud saloon last summer, the charge being
man slaughter in the second degree. Justice
was an old man, and in a quarrel with Clover
the latter kicked him to death. The trial Is
set for this week.
Through the efforts Of Capt. John II. Null
leu, of Wabasha, Frank Ginther, whose home
was In that city, but who was sent TO the PEN
i~tentiary from WinoGa county on a charge Of
forgery for a term OF three years, has had his
sentence committed by the governor to eigh-
teen months. This, with the time allowed
for good behavior, released young Ginther
on the 18th inst.
A brakeman named James Raymond, of the
Manitoba road, got into a dispute on the 1911
inst. with Jimmy Carroll, light weight OF the